 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1874 - 420 pages
...his address, his pace, and career, as well as the vigor of his horse, and his own skill would allow. This kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen about an age or two ago; who did not practise it for any oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty. It is folly to pretend... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 pages
...reason, but purely for the sake of being witty." It should be arranged thus : " About an age or two ago, this kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, who did not," etc. The following passage is still worse : " It is folly to pretend to arm ourselves... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...misplacing of clauses. The two following examples are from Irving's ' Elements of Composition : ' — " This kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, about an age or two ago, who did not practise it for any oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty." Here the clause " about... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...reason, but purely for the sake of being witty." It should be arranged thus : " About an age or two ago, this kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, who did not," etc. The following passage is still worse : " It is folly to pretend to arm ourselves... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...manner as not to separate the relative who from its antecedent countrymen. " About an age or two ago, this kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, who did not practice it for any oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty." It is folly... | |
 | William Minto - English language - 1892 - 582 pages
...misplacing of clauses. The two following examples are from Irving's 'Elements of Composition ' : — " This kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, about an ngo or two ago, who did not practise it tor auy oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty."... | |
 | John Nichol - English language - 1893 - 264 pages
...is reported in which the conviction for murder of a subordinate court was on appeal set aside." (17) "This kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, about an age or two ago, who did not practise it for any oblique reason but purely for the sake of being witty." (18) "We nowhere meet with... | |
 | William Allport Brockington - English language - 1899 - 178 pages
...first necessity to make clear the referClause. ence of ^e Adjective-clause to its ELEMENTS OF PROSE. " This kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen about an age or two ago, who did not practise it for any oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty." "and to have the principles... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...manner as not to separate the relative who from its antecedent countrymen. " About an age or two ago, this kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, who did not practice it for any oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty." It is folly... | |
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About an age or two ago, this kind of wit was very much in vogue among our countrymen, who did not practise it, 
